Strong Passwords
Manageable and secure deployment
In today's business environment, passwords are the most pervasive mechanism used to secure access to networks, resources and applications Unfortunately, password authentication is often the weakest link in the security infrastructure. Not surprisingly, most auditors, regulators and industry best-practices require use of strong passwords. The absence of strong password use can increase the liability organizations face when a breach occurs.
By rolling out across-the-board policies for strong passwords, IT departments aim to mitigate password-guessing attacks by individuals with malicious intent. However, despite countless hours spent creating policies, designing procedures and purchasing safeguards, a single user can undo all of IT's efforts by simply sharing a password or writing it down in a location near critical IT assets. Add to that the burden of handling password resets when users forget their strong passwords-a common occurrence-and strong password roll-outs often end up a failure.
With DigitalPersona, strong passwords become feasible. A touch of the finger helps generate unique strong passwords per enterprise application, and another touch unlocks the strong password for secure and rapid logon to applications. All strong passwords in the DigitalPersona environment are stored centrally, in existing enterprise directories such as Microsoft's Active Directory, allowing IT to manage these passwords at scale, across an entire corporation.
DigitalPersona helps organizations achieve rapid strong password roll-out and provides them with the following benefits:
Security — address both the sticky note and social engineering threats
Compliance—meet or exceed mandates TODAY
Address industry mandates and best practices, such as SOX404, PCI, HIPAA, ISO17799 and others, all of which require strong password policies
Efficiency—reduce IT burden, improve productivity
- Free users from remembering and typing passwords
- Eliminate password resets and workstation lockout burden on IT, improve employee productivity in accessing corporate resources.
- Deploy incrementally without modifying applications, simplify policy rollout through integration with Active Directory.